another black (bow)tie affair...

so, i went to the private equity industry's annual awards dinner...filled with wealthy people, wealthier people, and not so wealthy people like myself...basically, investors, bankers, lawyers, and accountants...the firm bought a very very expensive ten person table...we invited five of our clients/prospects to sit with us...champagne, wine wine wine, and the food was decent although the rump of lamb was a unique choice for a main...the turnout was actually very low which is clearly due to the credit crunchola...about 750 showed...the last couple of years, its apparently maxed out at 1,500...but 750 is still a lot of people wearing penguin outfits running around...

during a break in the awards, they had a stand up comedian go up and try to entertain us...he was one of those one-line guys...never actually telling a story, but just linking one-liners for a full 15 minutes...some were funny, but most were cheezy...and as i've found with british humor, most of it was way past the PC line...because the PC line doesn't really exist over here...

another thing they had was this silent auction on the side with about 100 autographed pictures of famous people...actors, celebrities, presidents, politicans, etc etc...some of the pics were awesome, but the starting bids were over 3k GBP...the autographed pics of MLK and JFK AND Jackie-O definitely caught my eye...they had an autographed pic of Obama of course, what caught my eye there was his signature, which seemed more like a symbol (like Prince) rather than a real "honest and sincere" signature...and they had cheap pics (under 200 GBP) of celebrities like certain blonde singers i don't really care to mention here...

anyways...that's it...good night, had lots of drinks, met some new people and caught up with others i haven't seen in a while...finished the night off with this whiskey on the rocks made some random country that my buddy wanted me to try...it was absolute krap...tasted like i was drinking a cigarette...way too smokey of a taste and one glass basically cost as much as a black label in the US...